Biography

Dr Filip Ivanović was born in Podgorica in 1986. He obtained BA and MA degrees from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bologna, and a PhD from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Diplomatic Practice from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.

He worked as a research/teaching fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Leuven, the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem and the University of Donja Gorica, and spent research stays at the University of Aarhus and the Norwegian Institute at Athens. In April 2022 he was appointed assistant research professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Montenegro.

In February 2020 he was visiting professor at the University of North Bengal in India. Since 2021 he is visiting scholar at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in History of Ideas (CRISI) at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. He gave a number of invited lectures in Podgorica, Belgrade, Bratislava, Minsk and Paris.

Dr Ivanović is the founder and director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Podgorica, and editor in chief of international academic journal Akropolis: Journal of Hellenic Studies. He is also member of editorial boards of journals Giornale critico della storia delle idee, Serbian Studies, and Socium i vlast: Society and Power.

He is expert evaluator of the European Commission, expert of the Agency for Control and Quality Assurance of Higher Education of Montenegro, member of the College of Research Associates of the European Science Fondation, and member of the Committee for Philosophy and Sociology of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts. From 2018 to 2021 he was member of the Working Group for the Negotiations on Accession of Montenegro to the EU for chapter 25 "Science and Research". In May 2022 he was appointed member of the Governing Board of the University of Montenegro.

He participated at over thirty international conferences and symposia in UK, Italy, Russia, Israel, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Argentina, etc. He authored a number of books, scholarly articles and book chapters.

Dr Ivanović is member of several professional and academic societies, including Young Academy of Europe, Royal Historical Society (as fellow), Centre for Young Scholars and Artists of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, American Philosophical Association, Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, British Society for History of Philosophy, North American Patristic Society and International Society for Neoplatonic Studies.

Selected publications:

• Filip Ivanović, “Accordo e armonia. L’estetica neoplatonica di Leon Battista Alberti”, in: A. Tagliapietra, G. Ghirelli, E. Maglione, C. Piccione (a cura di), Storie dellidea di immagine: Dalla filosofia antica allarte contemporanea, Milano: Mimesis, 2022, 191-207.
• Filip Ivanović, “Il pensiero patristico bizantino dei secoli IV-VIII e l’ambiente”, Byzantina Symmeikta, 31, 2021, 139-152.
• Filip Ivanović, “Body and Soul in Dionysius the Areopagite”, in: F. Lauritzen & S. Klitenic Wear (eds.), The Byzantine Platonists 284-1453, Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press, 2021, 113-123.
• Filip Ivanović, “Pseudo-Dionysius and the Importance of Sensible Things”, in: F. Dell’Acqua & E. S. Mainoldi (eds.), Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture c. 500-900, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, 77-87.
• Filip Ivanović, Desiring the Beautiful: The Erotic-Aesthetic Dimension of Deification in Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019
• Filip Ivanović, “Images of Invisible Beauty in the Aesthetic Cosmology of Dionysius the Areopagite”, in: J. Bogdanovic (ed.), Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, London: Routledge, 2018, 11-22.
• Filip Ivanović, “Union with and Likeness to God: Deification According to Dionysius the Areopagite”, in: M. Edwards & E. Vasilescu (eds.), Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought, London: Routledge, 2017, 118-157.
• Filip Ivanović, “Maximus the Confessor’s Conception of Beauty”, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 22:2, 2015, 159-179.
• Filip Ivanović, “The Eternally and Uniquely Beautiful: Dionysius the Areopagite’s Understanding of the Divine Beauty”, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 75:3, 2014, 188-204.